Poland in photo riddles - part 3

How can you replace leek with beer? This is the real riddle?

It wasn`t beer - political correctness or simply the law prohibit promoting alcohol to youngsters. It was incorrectly spelled leer. Most guessers saw it but couldn`t catch on that leek.

The way the student connected the l and e looked more like 'be' in vegetables than the le in lettuce....

Thank you for your persistence. :):):)

Another riddle. Where is a mistake in the shown vocabulary?

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I would take issue with some of the pronunciations.... (where's the h in whale?) p

when speaking of a canine I would not normally say "poor dog!" but rather "poor doggie!" For me "poor dog" would more be about an unfortunate man (especially one whose dog-like behavior has caught up with him...)

Maybe it should be "Away from class" or "Outside the classroom" "Outside of class" rather than "Out of class" (skończyła się (komuś) klasa)

No, the riddle concerns translation. One word is translated clumsily. And it is in the first column on the left.

Iguana? Legwan is the usual word in Polish.... it looks like it comes from French -- l'iguane...

dog - pies
piesek - doggie
Was it translated incorrectly?

Yes, exactly!! Stupid translation - like pizza which means pizza. hahahaha

The species` name in Polish is legwan zielony.

I am moving to other threads with my riddles. See you there.

Before I do, let me remind you there is still one unsolved riddle in post 67 on the page 3.
Why is the man acting like that???? What is he exactly?? Where???

It doesn't look like leek. That isn't a K.


Silent since about 1870 and never universal. Queen Victoria did pronounce the silent h after w however she was brought up in deliberate isolation by her German mother and German servants.


Me too. The phonetics for rabbit are just plain wrong.

Of course it isn`t K. That`s what the riddle was based on - a spelling mistake which changed the meaning. Are you with us or still drifting away on a lazy Sunday afternooner??? hahahaha

It's neither a riddle nor a k.


It's more like Monday evening where I am right now. The working week goes from Sunday to Thursday and nobody works much after 2pm.

You still refuse to admit you had no idea what we were talking about?? Why are you behaving in such an unmanly fashion??? :):):) Simply amaSSing!


Yes, you are still in Africa. That is why I correctly guessed you were selling us tall stories about your being in Warsaw a few days earlier. :):):)

Don't be daft. It was a particularly weak 'riddle'..


Not "still" but "again". I returned several days ago.


Until last week I was at home in Warsaw drinking bland and fizzy beer, eating gherkins and pushing a trolley around Biedronka. Then a few days in the U.K. and now back here for a while.

You are too weak to admit you had no idea and are blaming me instead. That`s not how a proud Brit should behave. Show some dignity or I will believe those opinions which claim that the UK and all its citizens have gone to the dogs and become pathetic losers, especially after Brexit. hahahaha

With Fenix as a noble exception., of course. Follow her example - when she doesn`t know sth, she says it sincerely and doesn`t blame anybody.

There you go again...


There was no 'idea' to have.


Why on Earth would anyone care what outsiders think about their country unless they have some sort of "cultural cringe" inferiority complex?

And it still doesn't say "leek"...

Yes, it does. Remember, leek is good for you. Don`t reject it so easily. hahahaha
Show more dignity at last. :):):)
Be a proud courageous Brit like Nelson`s sailors were at Trafalgar. If Nelson had had such soldiers like you, he wouldn`t have won a sea battle even against the navy of Czech Republic! hahahaha buhahahaha

I use it in cooking probably far more than you.


Don't be a doilum. There are enough of those here already.

Don`t be ciamciaramcia. Do be a proud Brit at last.:):):)

Do drink a black coffee and neck a paracetamol.

Did you see my question about adjectives in the other thread. Not a hard one (B2-ish) but not so easy if asked out of the blue.

Most probably I haven`t.

I usually pronounce the h, especially in isolation or stressed. A lot of Americans think of it as being more British (see Cool Whip jokes on Family Guy) but it's far more common in the US.

I didn't have a problem with that since the distinction been the schwa and unestressed ɪ is mostly lost in the US (a process that I think began in the west and spread Eastward). Would you pronounce 'gentleman' and 'gentlemen' differently? I don't think I do most of the time....

The traditional "RP" transcription system (although almost universally used for teaching 'British' pronunciation) is soooo weird, especially the way it has long vowels marked : without short equivalents.... I could understand [ka:t] (cart) and [kat] (cot) but the backwards a makes no sense....

But British linguistics has always been more into phonetics and matching exceedingly subtle vowel distinctions to discrete symbols while American linguistics is much more about phonemics (mental categorization) so the exact symbols used aren't so important....

(Rant off).

Same, though almost never in wh unless I'm trying to give a particular impression. And always pronounce it in herb and hotel unless speaking in my local dialect which doesn't use h at all.


Not really. The distinction is almost inaudible.


It's a tricky one. There's that, there's the one that looks like the letter æ and a few others. The sound differs. I've found that some Poles (especially ones who did English courses at Warsaw university in the 80s/early 90s - I met their "famous" and genuinely excellent teacher and he spoke like Dame Celia Volestrangler [worth looking out on YouTube] so they probably got it from him) pronounce it in a ridiculously exaggerated way, cet rather than cat. It sounds almost South African or like someone from the Channel Islands. There's also a snobbishness inherent in Polish language and society which leads to a distorted idea of what's "correct" or not when speaking. I've seen people correct each other while speaking which would just lead to a headbutting where I'm from.



There are a few sounds that are awkward enough to give linguists nice doctorates to frame on their wall.

You use it in cooking while I munch on a few fresh leeks of my own production a week. ):):)

Of course.

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A few leeks??? Crikey, that's a lot unless they're mini-leeks Presumably you mean raw rather than fresh (I'd not use unfresh ones at all) however you must be tholeeked up.

I'm not bothered for raw ones though occasionally put a little butter n a green salad.

Try making Glamorgan Sausage (use strong Cheddar not mild cheese and leek not onion. Use English mustard or Ukrainska rather than Polish). I do them sometimes and they always go down well in PL.

Easily understandable from history... surrounded by larger countries that tried to marginalize or eliminate the language rallying around the standard is a perfectly understandable response. And the very rational nature of Polish spelling makes that easier (adopt a spelling pronunciation and you're good to go.... while the chaotic nature of English spelling locks people into their birth dialects to a much larger extent...


So what's wrong with a schwa in rabbit?

That and war/political change making a fragile bourgeoisie feel more fragile yet and determined to preserve what they feel distinguishes them from hoi polloi.


Wouldn't that be a different word? Perhaps it exists in some dialects.

Still nobody has guessed the riddle from post 67. Here is another version of the situation. What exactly?

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What time frame are we talking? That is Zbigniew Ziobro. Is this from when he was justice minister when PiS were in power ? There are recent corruption allegations but that is since the riddle was posted in #67.